The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) says it is playing its role in ensuring that insurance companies comply with the set rules and laws of the industry. Mr Ahmad Adamu, Deputy Director, Enforcement and Compliance, NAICOM, said this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja yesterday. “We
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The Insurance industry in 2016 has not been left out in the current economic meltdown in the country. About 30 percent of insurance companies have still not presented their 2015 financial records. Up to 95 percent of companies have made losses and unable to pay dividends to their shareholders. Across the world, insurance is seen […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday said the much awaited Health Insurance Scheme of the State would commence in early 2017, expressing readiness to partner with key players in the sector to use insurance to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Lagos. Speaking at the commissioning of the new WAPIC Insurance Corporate […]
The Director-General Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), Sunday Thomas, has urged the public to secure their belongings even at a time that the country’s economy is in recession with insurance which remains the best tool to mitigate risks. The NIA Director-General gave the advice in Lagos over the weekend stressing that insurance operators have products to […]
The economic reality in Nigeria has begun to fall on Insurance companies in the country as many of them have slashed their workers’ salaries by 50 percent. Sources have revealed that some firms had extended the targets of premium generation to their employees, while some have reshuffled their departments so as to lay off those […]
Custodian and Allied Group has announced the appointment of Dr. Omobola Johnson as the new chairperson of the board of the company, following the resignation of the pioneer Board Chairman of the group, Chief Michael Ade Ojo. Ojo has steered the leadership of the Insurance Group to enviable heights from inception. Also, the company has […]
In its quest to develop insurance education in Nigeria, by the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) said no fewer than 3,000 insurance textbooks have been distributed to secondary schools in 10 states through their respective Ministry of Education. The President, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), Lady Isioma Chukwuma, disclosed this at a media
The Insurers’ Committee rose up from its meeting over the weekend, with a pledge to drive a massive insurance awareness among Nigerian youths through a multi- billion insurance rebranding project. Briefing journalists at the end of the meeting that took place in Lagos, Vice Chairman, Sub Committee Publicity of the Insurers Committee, Mrs. Ebelechukwu Nwachukwu, […]
The Nigeria Insurers Association has assured that it 58 insurance companies in the country will not retrench any of their staffs in a bid to cope with the current financial crisis affecting all sectors of the nation’s economy of which insurance industry is part of. Mr. Godwin Wiggle, outgoing Chairman of the Nigeria Insurers Association […]
Uganda will host the 44th annual African Insurance Organization (AIO) and General Assembly in May 2017, Kaddunabi Lubega the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) has revealed. AIO has 326 members: 315 of them from 45 countries in Africa and 11 are associate members from 7 overseas countries. Africa accounts for a paltry 1.4% of the total world insurance premiums due […]
Industrial And General Insurance Plc (IGI) has moved its corporate head office on Victoria Island, Lagos to a new location also on the highbrow island, in continuation of the restructuring process launched by the management to reposition the company for greater efficiency. IGI Plc, which began operations as a composite insurer in 1992 with its headquarters at
The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) has called on the Federal Government to issue bailout for the settlement of pensioners, as done to workers whose states could not pay salaries. The Lagos State Chairman of NUP, Joseph Dele, who said this in Lagos, urged the governments to urgently look into the plights of pensioners, who he said are […]
Worried by effects of the limited channels of insurance distribution in the country, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has initiated moves to create additional vehicles to convey insurance products to the public. Commissioner for Insurance, Mohammed Kari, disclosed this in Ilesha, Osun State, said the commission has identified limited channels of distribution as
The Lagos State government has issued Retirement Benefit Bond Certificates for a total sum of N1, 080 billion to 260 retirees from the Mainstream, Local Government, SUBEB, TEPO and Parastatals of Government, under the Contributory Pension Scheme for the Month of April, 2016. The fact that this Administration commenced and has been able to maintain […]
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Great Nigeria Insurance Plc, one of Nigeria’s foremost insurance and financial services provider, has donated educational learning kits to pupils of Wesley Schools 1 & 2 for the Hearing Impaired. Speaking during the official presentation of the educational materials to the school, the Executive Director,
As part of the growth strategy to resuscitate its company, Goldlink insurance Plc has announced plans to raise N8 billion capital in the next two months. Gbolahan Olutayo, Managing Director/CEO, who led the Interim Management Board (IMB) told investors while presenting its Facts behind the figures that with a profit forecast in 2017, 2018 and […]
In a move to set pace for other insurance companies in Nigeria, Wapic Insurance Plc has set out plans to be among the top two insurance companies in the country by 2019. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Chairman of the firm, stated this at the Company’s 56th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lagos. Aig-Imoukhuede, revealed that the […]
Without mincing word, the growth in the Nigeria insurance industry under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is highly commendable as it recorded almost N1 trillion in its Gross Premium Income (GPI) between 2011 and 2014. The GPI, which amounted to N965 billion, grew by 14.8 per cent, from the N840 billion recorded within a period of […]
Workers in the informal sector who are presently wooed by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) to embrace the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), have demanded for a window that would enable them get soft loans for the purchase of machines and equipment from their savings. This demand was made when executives of PenCom meet the workers […]
Following a deliberate and strategic decision to play a leading role in the nation’s insurance sector, the boards of SA Insurance Plc and SA Life Assurance Limited have approved the merger of both companies to form a frontline composite insurance company. According to the organisations’ spokesman, Mr. Nelson Egboboh who disclosed this to our […]